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Dingling
The Dingling were an ancient people who appear in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE. The Dingling are considered to have been an early Turkic-speaking people. They were also proposed to be the ancestors of Tungusic speakers among the later Shiwei people, or are related to Na-Dené and Yeniseian speakers. Modern archaeologists have identified the Dingling as belonging to the eastern Scythian horizon, namely the Tagar culture.
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The Dingling were an ancient people who appear in Chinese historiography in the context of the 1st century BCE. The Dingling are considered to have been an early Turkic-speaking people. They were also proposed to be the ancestors of Tungusic speakers among the later Shiwei people, or are related to Na-Dené and Yeniseian speakers. Modern archaeologists have identified the Dingling as belonging to the eastern Scythian horizon, namely the Tagar culture.
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